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Contemporary systems are an organism to themselves. Guided by natural "artificial" selection. Corporations are like aliens trying to terraform the social landsc

• r2_pilot 2y ago
  In fact, the original concept of a corporation was that they were created for a specific purpose and then dissolved once completed. In a way, the fact that modern corporations don't do that is analogous to how cancer is mutated cells that don't stop growing, even to the detriment of the host.
  • namaria 2y ago
    > In fact, the original concept of a corporation was that they were created for a specific purpose and then dissolved once completed You're wrong there. One of the original corporations grew to become the sovereign power over a whole sub continent and eventually got nationalized into a colonial administration. Another original corporation had a para military mandate and conducted large scale open ended naval warfare in three different continents.
• keiferski 2y ago
  I’ve always found it interesting how the word corporation is traced back to the Latin for body, corpus. As in Corpus Christi, the body of Christ, or the word corpse. There is something very organic about the word’s etymology which becomes even more compelling considering the role of corporations in the future of life on this planet.